Play Options in Sway

Explore Play options in Microsoft Sway.

Author:Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: Microsoft Sway

OS: Works in a browser, or as an app

Date Created: May 27, 2016Last Updated: May 27, 2016

After you create a Sway, or even while you are editing, you can use the
Preview Pane to see results. Yet, seeing a preview in a pane is no substitute for regular, full-screen viewing! To do the latter, you can use the Play option and enjoy your Sway in full-screen view. Follow these steps to explore along:

Create a new Sway or open an existing Sway. Figure 1 below shows an existing
Sway, opened.

Figure 1: Opened Sway

Now click the Play button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1, above. This
will play the Sway in full-screen mode, as shown in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2: Sway in full-screen mode

There are four options on the top-right in Play view. These options are explained below, as marked in Figure 2 above:

Edit: Clicking this button will close Play view, and take you back to the Normal edit view in Sway with the conventional tri-paned
Sway interface.

Change the navigation layout of this Sway: Click to bring up a drop-down menu, as shown in Figure 3. Here you
will find the Navigation options which enables you to specify how you want others to navigate your Sway by selecting a layout. Currently, there are
only three options available. Explore more in our Navigation in Sway tutorial.

Figure 3: Navigation layout drop-down menu

Share this Sway Socially: This option when clicked brings up a drop-down menu, as shown in Figure 4. This
drop-down menu contains all the share options which are explained in our Share Sways tutorial.

Organic Shapes with Brush Edges

You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80
hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too.
Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.